Open AccessOn Fisher's Test of Significance in Harmonic Analysis
Author(s) -
Shimshoni Michael
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1971.tb01829.x
Subject(s) - rank (graph theory) , harmonic , mathematics , spectral analysis , order (exchange) , statistics , test (biology) , harmonic analysis , geology , statistical physics , mathematical analysis , combinatorics , physics , paleontology , acoustics , quantum mechanics , finance , spectroscopy , economics
Summary Tables are given for estimating the significance of spectral peaks obtained by harmonic analysis. These tables depend also on the rank order of the peak, thus allowing lower order peaks to be accepted where with other tests they were failed. The use of the tables is discussed.